Abstract
This is a survey of 400 in-house lawyers working in public, third and commercial sectors. We set out here the findings at the highest level. A number of organisations assisted with the distribution of the survey. This report provides a unique profile of real differences within the in-house community. We examine individual and team orientations to the in-house role; the invocation of professional principles; and ethical infrastructure, ethical pressure and relationships with the employer. We relate these to externally validated indicators of ethical inclination: (i) moral attentiveness (the extent to which people deal with problems as moral problems and the extent to which people identify moral problems); and (ii) moral disengagement (the extent to which people are inclined to morally disengage to behave unethically without feeling distress). It is as rich a picture of what it means to be an ethical inhouse
lawyer as has ever been attempted.
lawyer as has ever been attempted.
Original language | English |
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Type | 'Mapping the Moral Compass' - report of online survey of 400 in-house lawyers |
Media of output | Online Report |
Publisher | UCL Centre for Ethics and Law |
Number of pages | 122 |
Place of Publication | Online |
Publication status | Published - 2 Jun 2016 |